W-Two Worlds Apart

episode 12

With the latest volume of W in hand, Kang Chul asks Yeon-joo if he’s the husband who disappeared on her. As soon as he says the words, the manhwa world freezes, and a webtoon portal renders behind him, making them appear as a drawing on the other side.

Chul remains shockingly calm, perhaps because he saw this inside the manhwa, and he asks if it’s difficult for her to answer his question.

She remains silent, so he takes her hand and says they’ll find out together, and steps through the portal, taking Yeon-joo with him.

They come out in her world in Dad’s office, of course, because that’s where the tablet is right now. It glows a white light after they come through the portal, and then shuts off again. Chul guesses right away that this is her father’s office.

He reaches out to touch the wedding ring that Yeon-joo is wearing around her neck, and she says she didn’t know she’d taken the manhwa with her into his world. She looks distraught as she says that she never intended to tell him, and all she wanted was his happy ending. He smiles back at her sweetly.

Out in the yard, Su-bong chases Seok-bum down and begs him to stay because he’s so frightened to be here alone. Seok-bum argues that he’s more afraid of Su-bong and his laugh than anything, but Su-bong just clings and asks him to stay until Yeon-joo returns.

Chul stops to look at the photographs of Yeon-joo and Dad, and asks where her father is. Yeon-joo hesitates to answer, so Chul tells her not to worry because he’s not going to shoot this time: “If I repeat the same mistake twice, I’d be an idiot.”

She tells him not to misunderstand—her father isn’t the one who drew recent events, or framed him. With that, she goes to her bedroom door to unlock it. Chul is shocked to see Dad lying there with no face, and Yeon-joo immediately begins to cry.

She doesn’t know why this happened to Dad, and explains that only a few hours have passed here, despite a month passing in the manhwa world. She starts to get dizzy all of a sudden and wobbles on her feet, and Chul catches her in his arms just as she starts to faint.

Su-bong actually manages drag Seok-bum back inside, and they jump when they see Kang Chul walking out of Yeon-joo’s bedroom, carrying her in his arms. Su-bong stutters, “Kang… Kang…” and gapes at the sight. Kang Chul asks for some help with Yeon-joo, and then carries her outside to her car. But! You didn’t lock the bedroom door with faceless Dad inside!

Yeon-joo stirs awake and says she just fainted from exhaustion, which happened the last time she traveled to his world and stayed for an extended period of time. Chul makes sure that she’ll be okay if she just gets some rest, and Seok-bum calls ahead to the hospital to ask for a room.

Chul gets up to go, and Yeon-joo grabs his arm, asking, “Are you going somewhere? Don’t go.” He says that he has something to take care of first, and promises to come see her shortly.

“Do you remember? Do you remember… me?” she asks, hope in her eyes. But Chul says no, he’s just guessing what the Kang Chul inside the manhwa must have felt. *whimper* It’s not the same!

Chul says that Yeon-joo is the same though, so he’s sure that he’ll come to know it for himself soon—that crazy charm of hers that he read about. Heh. He sends her ahead to the hospital with Seok-bum, and then goes back inside the workshop where Su-bong is pacing back and forth wondering why Kang Chul is here.

Su-bong is a nervous wreck (I mean, more than usual). Chul asks his name and Su-bong blurts, “PARK SU-BONG!” like he’s answering a drill sergeant, and he nods like a bobblehead doll when Chul asks if it’s okay that he borrowed some shoes.